Favourite colours for cars

[myglaren]

I like the Corsair but not the colour.

[CitroJim]

I love both the Corsair and the colour it's in Strikingly different!

[mickthemaverick]

That is the colour I brush painted my Reliant Mk 6 in when I were nowt burra lad!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Being Ford Consul Capri day and wondering if that bluey/purple paint on the Corsair was a ford original, came across this little restoration project on retrorides.

Now he starts off with what I would call an already decent car and paint job, in a similar shade to the Corsair, and then opts for a different paint job in a deeper "cadbury purple" as he describes it, and 5 years later it emerges as a finished job.

Without nicking the photos, a small flick through the short thread shows some nice pics and I would have been perfectly happy with the before, and driven it around for the 5 years rather than re-invent the "after".

https://retrorides.proboards.com/thread ... nsul-capri

Before
http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/436 ... 0c5c6d.jpg
After

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screenshot http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=63364c64c1bea2953642596e66a2463a&subId=2095273&u=https%3A//www.facebook.com/chris.mason.7399/videos/10214130782126736/

Neil

[myglaren]

That one I do like. The car and the colour.

[CitroJim]

That one I do like. The car and the colour.

Ditto

[mickthemaverick]

That one I do like. The car and the colour.

Ditto

et moi

[Sloppysod]

That is the colour I brush painted my Reliant Mk 6 in when I were nowt burra lad!!

So I wasn't the only one to brush paint cars, I brush painted a Vauxhall Victor 101 (FC?, not coke bottle) in powderbkue/white two-tone (Blue below glass line, white above), but it turned damp overnight and ended up with white dots along blue upper wing edges!

[myglaren]

I brush painted a Hillman Imp, bright yellow.
The people I worked for hated it and I had to park round the back, with the other 'socially unacceptable' wrecks. It became acceptable when they needed me to go and take photo's of Henry Cooper in a bit of a rush.

Also hand painted my GS, but white. Ten coats of Tekaloid.

[CitroJim]

I brush-painted my first Mini Used a paint especially for the purpose. I can't exactly recall the name now but 'Re-Paint' rings a vague bell... Internet searches draw a blank...

[myglaren]

There definitely was a "Re Paint" on the market, I have seen it used by a mate but used Tekaloid myself, as it was what was in the carbits shop I used.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I brush-painted my first Mini Used a paint especially for the purpose. I can't exactly recall the name now but 'Re-Paint' rings a vague bell... Internet searches draw a blank...

I like this chaps approach and he does a very decent job. More than decent enough for the BB Micra . He is doing a Jim...hand painting a mini.

Had to smile at the end when he said...

"I'll put a few more videos on, when and as I do them, that's if you want to see them. If you don't, don't watch them simple as that!"

My view entirely...watch it if you want, I enjoyed it!



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Re-Paint, Car Plan Re-paint Car Plan are a brand associated with Halfords.

I can't exactly recall the name now but 'Re-Paint' rings a vague bell... Internet searches draw a blank...

and from the transient e-bay where occasionally old tins of paint are offered for sale, today Sunday 18th April in the year 2023, the FCF bags a tin of "repaint" to preserve for the internet enquiries of future generations.

ebay montage

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

My DDG search turned up these images:

BFTW

BFTW

[Gibbo2286]

I like the Corsair but not the colour.

I liked the Corsair.. but not the rust. They rusted away while you watched.